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I really can't say I feel that way. The chess game in the original alone makes it stand head and shoulders above the remake.
+1 McQueen and Dunaway are a near unbeatable duo for me, but the remake is decent in its own right.
I'm intrigued by that trailer. Guy Pearce rarely lets me down either.
I think I've known you long enough now to say that I feel you'd enjoy those three. I do hope so, anyway, especially The Tailor of Panama and Seraphim Falls.
The remake on the other hand tells a more compelling story and develops the characters so you'd understand them better. You know there's a game of cat and mouse in the remake between Thomas Crown and Miss Insurance Investigator. The original doesn't capitalize on that, thus leaving some things that connected the two unresolved.
As a classical romantic, the original wins it for me.
As a film overall? The remake. No contest.
http://deadline.com/2017/10/the-foreigner-wayne-marc-godfrey-interview-stx-sparkle-roll-china-co-production-box-office-1202196127/
Shows how China is really becoming a heavyweight in the industry...
"Plus, 40% of the Chinese box office flows back to the partners rather than the usual 25% because of the co-production status."
People always comment on Bond's higher box office outside of the US, but many don't realize that the share of profits retained is likely less from such foreign markets. Well, we know MGM tried to sell to the Chinese last year, and if that deal had gone through, then presumably more of B25's overseas Chinese profit would have been retained, based on the above.
I wouldn't be surprised if they try to make a deal with them again after B25's release, since that market is becoming very important.
Bond #7:
Why in the world did he feel compelled to honor his Remington Steele contract? I am sure that given the circumstances and given the TV show's dwindling viewership, Brosnan would have had a good reason to escape. And something tells me that Cubby and MGM could have made that happen. Field and Chowdhury (in Some Kind of Hero) only go with Brosnan's version: he was tied to doing the series. I say "bull." There was something elsle going on there.
In any case, one observation I have made, in reviewing Brosnan's films, is that as the storylines got more ridiculous, he actually got better and better in the role. DAD was maybe his best performance. Thoughts?
DAD is good because Brosnan manages to not overreact in it unlike his middle two films. And he definitely captured a lot of Bond's suave and confident nature, but I find he did both of those things better in GE (as well as better "acting").
I think those elements in TND, TWINE and DAD don't do Brosnan any favors, and his performance can suffer in light of what he's given to work with and what he is surrounded by plot wise that bring him down just as those good elements in GE bring him up. I hear some people who call DAD his best performance, but what is surrounding him-bad acting, dialogue, characters, plot and more-really take away the shine that is there and for me GE is where he actually got the most to work with in the highest amount of quality. Basically, GE is the major film of his where he's not only good, but also the one whose contents outside of himself are those he doesn't have to feel embarrassed about.
I'll be rewatching the era for the first time in a long time sometime soon, so I'll have to see if my impressions on him have changed and what his best performance feels like after a reinvestigation.
I feel the same way about CR vs QoS to be honest (the earlier film was a tremendous team effort while the later film is all Craig. I prefer him in CR but that's because he had better material to work with and played superbly off his co-stars).
@Major_Boothroyd , agreed on The Ghost Writer. I really wish he had a larger role in that film because he was a treat to watch whenever he was on screen.
Brosnan lived up to the 'promise of Brosnan as Bond' in DAD. What some of us always wanted to see from him. It's just as shame he did it in that film. He showed the same confidence in The Tailor of Panama which was released in the prior year (my favourite performance from him) and in After The Sunset.
-the hospital scene with M.
-threatening Xao at the MRI machine.
-his dialogue with Jinx
-reviving Jinx
TND is up-and-down and I agree with most people that his performance in TWINE feels forced in quite a few areas. Definitely one of the weakest portrayals of Bond to date, though Brosnan still managed a few killer moments (like his disposal of Elektra).
Compare that to his more reserved (some would say stiff) GE performance in the cell with Natalya and he comes off far better in that.
It's the way he tips his head as he says it as if he's giving the line dramatic emphasis. Maybe i'm looking too much into it.
Found this online, and the music gives the footage a whole lot of a different perspective and tone.
Great post. I will also add that it was a good job Brosnan missed out on the role in 1987. In 95 he looked great as Bond, but in 87 he was too young, or rather looked too young.